PLEASE HELP! External Drive disk utility Erase.

[Chris 123]

i just erased my external hard drive through disk utility my accident. I had VERY important files and the 1tb was full. I'm going crazy please help

 

[someguy]

In what way did you delete the data? Did you remove or reformat the partition?

Here are two suggestions. Neither program is free. I've only used Data Rescue, and never on a full 1TB drive.

Data Rescue
FileSalvage

 

[miles01110]

Don't use the disc until you determine what you can recover using the above programs.

 

[Chris 123]

I managed to recover about a quarter of the files using data rescue. Still not great but better than nothing. It's my own stupidity for deleting them in the first place.